open port 9999

Web analytics is the study of online behaviour in order to improve it. There are two categories; off-site and on-site web analytics. Google’s Urchin 6 can be installed under Linux kernel 2.6 or 2.4 for Apache web log analysis. Urchin 6 is just like Google Analytics the most widely used hosted web analytics system. It is targeted at ecommerce or enterprise users:

Urchin Software from Google analyzes traffic for one or more websites and provides easy-to-understand reports on your visitors – where they come from, how they use your site, what converts them into customers, and much more. If you have content behind a security firewall or on an intranet or internal network that prevents you from using the Google Analytics service, Urchin Software from Google is for you.

In this small tutorial you will learn about installing Urchin 6 Web Analytics under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x.

Step #1: Download Urchin 6

Visit offical site to grab latest Urchin 6 for Linux kernel 2.6. You can also use wget command as follows:$ cd /tmp $ wget http://dl.google.com/urchin/current_urchin6_linux2.6_kernel.zip

Configure Urchin

You need to open default port using iptables. A sample rule, adjust it according to your setup:/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i ${PUB_IF} -p tcp --destination-port 9999 -j ACCEPT Next, type the following url to start the Urchin administrative interface:http://your-server-ip.com:9999/ ORhttps://your-server-ip.com:9999/

Fig.01: Urchin 6 Login Screen

The default username is admin and the password is urchin. A wizard will direct you through the process of licensing the product and changing the default password. You must obtained license from Urchin software authorized consultants.